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Place: Lurgan Baptist 28:3:2006 Place: Lurgan Baptist 28:3:2006 Reading: Numbers 13:1-3, 17-33 FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN 13. KADESH - BARNEA - THE PLACE OF FAILURE ! As we have noted before the journey from Egypt to Canaan can be divided into various parts. 1. From Egypt to Sinai ( Exod 1:1-19:1 ) 2. From Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea ( Num 10:11-15:1 ) 3. From Kadesh Barnea to Kadesh-Barnea ( Num 16:1-20:21 ) 4. From Kadesh-Barnea to the land of Canaan. ( Num 20:20- Joshua 4:1 ) Israel now stood at the crossroads, Egypt was behind them, God was with them, and Canaan was before them. Israel are faced with a tremendous choice. What will they do ? Will they go forward in obedience to the Lord or will they go backward in disobedience ? You see, Kadesh became a watershed in every sense of the term. It is a name written in flaming letters, for Kadesh proved a turning point in the entire enterprise so far as that whole generation was concerned. Before Kadesh the children of Israel were pilgrims advancing with purpose at the commandment of the Lord. After Kadesh they were simply wanderers going around in circles. They were like the proverbial door on its hinges, all the time moving backwards and forwards, but never getting anywhere. It was only when they had come full circle and were brought back again to Kadesh, that the Lord moved to bring the new or second generation of the people into the land of Canaan by the hand of Joshua. ( Num 20:1 ) Now sometimes Kadesh is linked with the wilderness of Paran, and sometimes with the wilderness of Zin. The reason for this seems to be that Kadesh straddled the border between the two areas, a border which at best was probably ill-defined. But its chief significance lay in the fact that Kadesh was the gateway to Canaan. So it was here at Kadesh Barnea, on the border of Canaan, that Israel foolishly forfeited their opportunity to enter the Promised Land and claim their inheritance. This tragic failure has made the name “ Kadesh,” a synonym for defeat and lost opportunity. Israel’s downfall at Kadesh is a solemn reminder to us today that it’s a dangerous thing to trifle with the will of God. My …. you may end up spending your life wandering around just waiting to die. You sooner or later, each of us will face our own Kadesh-Barnea crisis, when we will have to make a choice. Will we press on to the Canaan life of victory, or will we return to the purposeless and unsatisfying life of the desert ? Now Canaan is often referred to as representing heaven. But this can be only so in the rather limited sense that Canaan came at the end of the journey. Its real significance is much more immediate. Canaan represents God’s full purpose for his people. He would not only bring Israel out of Egypt, and through the desert, He would also bring them into Canaan. In the same way, the Lord has much more in mind for us than that our salvation should simply be an escape from hell. Bless God, it is that, but its much more. His purpose in saving me said Paul was “ to reveal His Son in me.” ( Gal 1:6 ) The same apostle declared in another place, “ whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” ( Rom 8:29 ) This means that there can be no finality to Christian experience in this life. On the contrary, there is a constant pressing on towards the mark. ( Phil 3:14 ) You see, the spiritual equivalent to that generation missing the land, is not that present day believers may miss heaven at the last. Rather, it is the very real possibility of missing the full purpose of our calling in the present, of failing to realise in the here and now, that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. My …. have you come a certain distance in spiritual things, only to vegetate in a kind of spiritual vacuum ? Have you become like a stagnant pool, rather than like a watered garden ? My …. Kadesh- Barnea carries a solemn warning for us all ! Are we going backward or forward ? Is it to be the old life of failure or the new life of fruitfulness ? Lets this …. have a look at Israel this …. on the borders of Canaan at Kadesh Barnea and notice, (1) THE REQUEST You see, at first sight it appears as if the sending forth of the twelve spies to search the land of Canaan had its origin in the commandment of the Lord, but by comparing Scripture with Scripture we see, (a) WHERE IT ORIGINATED: Look if you will at ( Deut 1:19-23 ) Sending the spies therefore, was an idea that appears to have originated with the people. The Lord seemingly condescended to their request and Moses too, went along with the idea. But why should twelve men be sent into Canaan to spy out the land ? The Israelites already knew what kind of land it was for God had already more than once described it as “ a land flowing with milk and honey.” ( Exod 3:8 ) The promise of God was unchanged. To Abraham the patriarch, God had covenanted to gave the land. Do you recall this covenant ? “ In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, unto thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river the river Euphrates.” ( Gen 15:18 ) To Moses the prophet the Lord said, “ And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.” ( 3:8 ) God’s purpose was to set them free, that was emancipation, to take them out, that was separation, to bring them in, that was possession. Now forty years later Moses is reminding the new generation of the land God had given unto them. ( Deut 1:20-21 ) My …. was God’s promise concerning this land not sufficient ? Was description of this land not enough ? Apparently not so Israel come with this proposal. “ We will send before us and they shall search us out the land.” ( 1:22 ) My …. was this not the first wavering step of doubt ? Sure, Moses endorsed their request and got permission from the Lord to carry out the plan ( Num 13:1-3 ) But it appears that God was letting the Jews have their own way, not because their way was the right way, but because He wanted to teach them a lesson. They needed to learn to trust the Word of God and to do the will of God, His way not their own way. ( Prov 3:5-6 ) The Lord often seems to condescend to meet people in the state in which He finds them at a given time. Do you recall on a previous occasion when Israel despised the manna and desired flesh to eat. ( Num 11:4-7 ) The psalmist says, “ He gave them their request but send leanness into their soul.” ( Ps 106:15 ) Do you remember when Israel demanded a king ? Their cry to Samuel was, “ Gave us a king to judge us …. that we also may be like all the nations.” ( 1 Sam 8:6, 20 ) He says, “ I gave thee a king in mine anger and took him away in my wrath.” ( Hosea 13:11 ) My …. sometimes the Lord allows us to carry out our own unbelieving plans to our own confusion. If we will “ lean on our own understanding,” ( Prov 3:5 ) the Lord sometimes lets us take our own way until we discover what utter folly our fancied wisdom is. You see, this request originated in the will of man. (a) (b) WHAT IT REVEALED: You see, it revealed 1. DISBELIEF IN THE WORD OF GOD: The twelve spies travelled about 500 miles during the forty days of their survey of Canaan, but they discovered nothing that God hadn’t already told them. They already knew the names of the pagan nations that lived in the land ( Gen 15:18-21 ) They knew that it was a good land and a rich land flowing with milk and honey. ( Exod 3:8 ) But instead of trusting the Lord and believing the Word they demanded that spies be sent and what to do ? ( Num 13:18-20 ) Do you know what in effect they were saying, “ we cannot accept God’s description of the land of Canaan, we must it confirmed by man.” My …. is this not what we do so often ? God’s promises to do certain things for us, in us, with us, through us, but instead of going forward and counting on the Lord we stand still in unbelief. Is this not what Sarah did ? The Lord promised to gave her a son, but Sarah was past her sell by date, so she laughed and said, “ Shall I of a surety bear a son which am old ?” ( Gen 18:13 ) It was the laugh of unbelief at the promise of God, but how different was old Abraham for of him we read that “ he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God.” ( Rom 4:20 ) Tell me, are you like Sarah or Abraham ? 1.
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